Long Night

I was up until roughly 5:15 a.m. this morning. Here's a recap. I was working on a paper for my Exegesis of Mark class that was due today. It's not actually due until 5:00, but I wanted to get it done last night so I could attend to other things today. I finished that paper around 4:00 or so and got in the shower. While there, I was reviewing in my mind all the things coming up today - one of them being that I have to go listen to a couple more sermons in my small group for my preaching class. As I thought about that, I realized that I would need to turn in a self-evaluation of my last sermon today. As you might guess, I had completely forgotten about that and not done it. So, at around 4:30, I realize that I still have another assignment to do. I got out of the shower and wrote the two-page evaluation in 20 min. Not bad.

After that, I went to sleep for about four hours and got up an hour before I really needed to because I could hear my roommates talking in the living room and couldn't go back to sleep. In 20 min. I will go to class to listen to a couple more sermons. Let's hope they don't do me in!

Happy ADVENT

Maybe I'm just too much of a stickler, but I was a little annoyed today at church when we were instructed to greet one another with the words "Merry Christmas." Does that seem a little silly to anyone else? It's December 4th! The only people I'm wishing a Merry Christmas now are those I'm not planning to see until after Christmas. I guess that means I don't need to go back to church there next week. Having already wished them a merry Christmas, perhaps I should be on my way. Alas, I was stubborn enough not to do it actually. I defiantly wished those seated around me a happy advent instead. I still may cut out next week though. We'll see...